Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking for work has become a hard-working future millionaire in need of a shave: he attacks himself twice a day with one of eleven electric razors. Standing 5 ft. 10 in., weighing 150 lbs., he eats little, smokes seldom, drinks ''only with chicks." On his wrist, on a single band, are two monstrous, oyster-shaped gold watches worth $610 apiece. At one time he had 40 watches. A friend, visiting him one day, picked up a magazine and out fell a $300 chronometer...
...fold of the groin . . . Then fold in the right leg, grasp the foot and place its sole uppermost on the folded left leg . . . Sit up straight and then without pausing lean the trunk forwards as far as possible, stretching the arms vigorously behind you, right hand grasping left wrist. . . Breathe deeply in this position for a few seconds, then...
...second shot while his rivals are flailing away with their woods. In addition, says his friend Dow Finsterwald, this season "the best part of Palmer's game is his putting." Palmer's putting form is still a matter of argument between himself and his father. Arnold Palmer favors a wrist motion, the Deacon a pendulum-like arm stroke ("Pap's theory requires more nerves than I have," says Palmer). But whatever the merits of his style, Palmer has acquired the confidence necessary to a top putter. Says Finsterwald: "When Palmer addresses an 8-or 10-ft. putt...
...book's hero is Daniel Tiamat, an Irish-American newspaperman (his name is that of a doomed deity, the mother of the gods in Babylonian mythology). The book tells how Tiamat arrives at young manhood in full vigor of mind and body, with a crapshooter's wrist, moral faculties unblunted by use, and a more than Hearstian knowledge of what makes news paper readers salivate. By middle age he is reduced to physical paralysis and the ignominy of writing an agony column un der the pseudonym of Miss Friendship (clearly a fictional cousin of Nathanael West...
...varsity finished the scoring with two more second period goals, one by Morse at 6:30 on passes from Thomas and center Jim Dwinell, and the final tally by Beckett at 13:46, a hard wrist shot from 30 feet out on the left that just caught the upper right corner...